scc wrote:Edgeley-Kulm Protesting Hi-Liners "B" Status
by Ryan Cunningham newsdakota.com
November 6
Valley City--Apparently, no one in District 5 is willing to get along and play nice with Valley City.
A month after LaMoure officially protested Valley City's status as a Class "B" school, a status set to begin in 2009, Edgeley-Kulm plans to do the same.
Rick Diegel, the superintendent of the Edgeley-Kulm school system, has notified Valley City superintendent, Dean Koppelman, that he plans to protest the August action of the North Dakota High School Activities Association (NDHSAA).
The action created a Class "A" and Class "B" division for all activites, except football, and set the enrollment cutoff as 400. Diegel claims the board did not have the legal authority to make the move.
Koppelman was also informed that, should Edgeley-Kulm's protest be ignored, which was the result of LaMoure's protest, officials there will ask the board to set the enrollment cutoff at 300. The switch would move Valley City to Class "A" for at least the next 10 years, according to Al Cruchet, the activities director of the Valley City School District.
According to Cruchet, the move could also threaten Grafton and Central Cass's status with any new enrollment that may occur. Grafton is listed with an enrollment of 275, and Central Cass lists 260. Should all the schools be eventually moved to Class "A", and with Davies High School in Fargo set to begin play in the Eastern Dakota Conference, Valley City could spend time in the Western Dakota Association.
The meeting will take place in Minot on November 21st.
No one is willing to "play nice" as the article says because the NDHSAA decided to change the A/B cutoff for Valley City. They didn't do it for Beulah or Grafton, so why should Valley City get to benefit from moving to Class B early? I hope these smaller schools prevail.
I agree.....as I said before, at least Grafton did it with some class; VC can't say the same
and okay, according to their own supt, it'll take
10 years for Valley to get to 300 if the limit were there....and they still think they're B material?
E/K has a legitimate protest as did LaMoure......E/K would be forced west into more driving, etc b/c they're the easternmost team by a good 45 miles or more in the Dist 6 if the move is forced on them......also, if the member schools of the NDHSAA had to vote about a three class system wouldn't lowering the number fall under that approval as well?